World & Nation
A woman slipped a gun to a male prisoner being escorted to court in Salt Lake City and the man killed an attorney and critically wounded a bailiff but was surrounded by police as he fled the building, authorities said.
April 3, 1985
Death by firing squad spotlights old execution method
June 18, 2010
Convicted Utah killer to face firing squad
April 23, 2010
Utah will be able to use a firing squad to execute death row inmates when lethal-injection drugs are unavailable, as long as the governor signs a bill that cleared the state Senate on Tuesday.
March 10, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah death row inmate featured in the popular book “Under the Banner of Heaven” after killing his sister-in-law and her child for resisting his polygamist beliefs inched closer to becoming the first American to be executed by firing squad in nearly a decade after losing his latest appeal Monday.Ron Lafferty could be executed as soon as next year after his latest legal setback, said Andrew Peterson, assistant solicitor general at the Utah attorney general’s office.Lafferty’s lawyer, Dale Baich, said in an email that he will use all options to challenge the ruling and will likely ask the U.S.
Aug. 12, 2019
Movies
The American Cinematheque Aero Theatre’s eighth annual Dust-to-Dawn Horrothon, which kicks off Saturday evening, features six horror flicks, trailers, shorts, giveaways and even coffee and energy drinks to help die-hard fans make it through the night.
Oct. 23, 2013
American Cinematheque to present horror films from dusk to dawn
High School Sports
Kris Johnson and Tremaine Fowlkes of Crenshaw High and Toby Bailey of Loyola proved themselves as three of the area’s top juniors last season and were selected to the City Times’ All-Star Basketball Team.
July 18, 1993
Sports
Many of the nation’s top prep basketball players traveled to California last weekend to compete in the West Coast All-Stars camp at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
July 16, 1993
Canadian Dave Barr shot a three-under-par 69 Saturday at Milwaukee and took a one-shot lead over South African David Frost entering today’s final round of the $400,000 Greater Milwaukee Open golf tournament at the Tuckaway Country Club.
Sept. 21, 1986